Senior Technical Engineer Contracts in South Yorkshire

Senior Technical Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Senior Technical Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.99% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 366 411 480
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 88.58% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 254 331
10th Percentile £215 £240 £235
25th Percentile £375 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £551 £564 £669
90th Percentile £625 £614 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £13.60
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.26 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -33.85% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.50 £22.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £18.51 £23.75 £33.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £15.23 £21.75
% change year-on-year +39.46% -29.98% +22.05%

Senior Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Senior Technical Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Engineer in South Yorkshire

Senior Technical Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical Engineer within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield - 4 £400 - 3
Senior Technical Engineer
Yorkshire

Senior Technical Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Senior Technical Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Senior Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Data Management
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Puppet
1 4 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) SCCM
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (50.00%) Unix
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) AIX
3 2 (50.00%) Solaris

Senior Technical Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) AIX
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Data Management
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Puppet
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat